Celtic Club

The Celtic Club was an Irish Mob organization that operated in Cleveland, Ohio from the late 1960s to 1977. The organization was founded by Danny Greene, an associate of the Cleveland crime family and formed union local president. Greene, who believed that he was the descendant of Celtic warriors, founded a crew of young Irish-American gangsters and set up gambling dens across the city. In 1976, the Celtic Club went to war with the Mafia after mob boss John T. Licavoli attempted to levy a "street tax" upon the Irish, and Greene allied himself with rebellious capo John Nardi and his crew. The war initially went well for the Celtic Club, which carried out 36 car bombings in the summer of 1976 alone. However, in 1977, the Genovese crime family hitman Ray Ferritto hunted down the club's main enforcers, and Greene was murdered on 6 October 1977, ending the Celtic Club.